Vladimir Bukovsky

Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky (30 December 1942-27 October 2019) was a Soviet dissident and Russian liberal politician who was best-known for his exposure of the USSR's political abuse of psychiatry.

Biography
Vladimir Konstantinovich Bukovsky was born in Belebey, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union on 30 December 1942, and he was kicked out of primary school for self-publishing an unauthorized magazine (Samizdat); he was also kicked out of Moscow State University for criticizing the Komsomol. He was sent to a psychiatric hospital from 1963 to 1965 due to his dissident activities, and he continued to organize demonstrations into the late 1960s. He spent a total of 12 years in prison-hospitals, labor camps, and prisons before being expelled from the USSR in late 1976, and he went into exile in the United Kingdom, where he became a neuropsychologist. He helped to expose and halt the political abuse of psychiatry in the USSR with his activism, and he became involved with various nonprofit organizations. During the 2000s and 2010s, he became involved with liberal opposition to Vladimir Putin's rule, and he helped to cofound Solidarnost in 2009. He died in 2019 in Cambridge, England at the age of 76.